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Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind
What is property, and why does our species have it? In The Property Species, Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom...
Graph Theory has recently emerged as a subject in its own right, as well as being an important mathematical tool in such diverse subjects as operation...
How the Map Problem was Solved
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical con...
Up-to-date and case-study laden analysis of how children and adolescents interact with the media....
The Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics
In just seven symbols, with profound and beautiful simplicity, Euler's Equation connects five of the most important numbers in mathematics. Robin Wils...
First published in 1976, this book has been widely acclaimed as a major and enlivening contribution to the history of mathematics. The updated and cor...
Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do...
An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts
Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian Da...
A Very Short Introduction
Number theory is the branch of mathematics primarily concerned with the counting numbers, especially primes. It dates back to the ancient Greeks, but ...
The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime
From Simon & Schuster, Crime & Human Nature is the definitive study of the causes of crime. Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociolog...
Regression Analysis IM...
The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of th...
His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life : an Agony in Eight Fits
"In this book, the author explores the singular imagination of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - known to millions around the world as Lewis Carroll - the cr...
How many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal's ...
Shaping an American City
The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its ...
Treaties, Cases, and Analysis
This volume introduces law students to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of interna...
More than a Method
Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach....
In the early 1980s, the welfare state, for too long regarded as a notable contribution to the establishment of a humane social order, had over the pre...
Kai was born with the ability to see brokenness and to fix it. This ability has a name: Affinity. Saved from death and freed from the spiritual realm,...
Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants is especially important when farmers are trying to minimize fertilizer use for cost or environmental reasons. T...
An Introductory Approach
Discrete Mathematics is one of the fastest growing areas in mathematics today with an ever-increasing number of courses in schools and universities. G...
Regression Analysis provides complete coverage of the classical methods of statistical analysis. It is designed to give students an understanding of t...
Statistical Methods, Third Edition, provides students with a working introduction to statistical methods offering a wide range of applications that em...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
In his book The God Delusion, prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has brought together the many arguments against the likelihood of God's existence. Thi...
The Epidemic and Its Survivors
Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940s and 1950s, parents were terrorized by the tho...
Business Rent-seeking and Tax Competition Among U.S. States
The standard model of strategic tax competition assumes that gov¿t. policymakers are benevolent, acting solely to maximize the utility of the residen...
Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics
Studies the rising inequality in American society and addresses the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat that inequality....
The World of the New Urban Poor
Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastatin...
Laboratory and Pilot Scale
Taking an approach grounded in the media effects tradition, this book provides a comprehensive, research-oriented treatment of how children and adoles...
Graph theory is a fast-developing discipline and has, over the past few decades, been seen to have important applications, particularly in operations ...
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-vo...
An analysis of the problems and possibilities of the information revolution in developing countries, taking into account political, institutional, and...